Max’s Tokyo Vice is hanging up the badge after two seasons, but its creator still has a desire to tell more of the story. As reported by , the noir thriller’s cancelation was confirmed by Max original programming chief Sarah Aubrey, series creator and executive producer J.T.
Rodgers, and director and executive producer Alan Poul during the Produced By conference today. They say the decision to end before Season 3 was mutual and decided in an effort to support the storytelling. "To know you'd have the two-season arc was really wonderful.
"To know you’d have the two-season arc was really wonderful," Rogers said. Rogers and Poul also released a joint statement with the announcement of the show’s end that thanked Max for its support. They say the company stood by them when making major, potentially controversial story decisions.
“Over the last five years Max has made sure we got to tell our story,” they said. “They have supported us through thick and thin. Not only did they give us these two seasons, they said yes when we asked to end season one with a series of cliffhangers, and they said yes when we asked for two extra episodes so we could land the plane in the way J.
T. had always envisioned.” The statement continues: “We’re grateful not only to Max, but to our partners Fifth Season, who sold the show around the world, and made it a global success story.
They were in the trenches with us always, guaranteeing that we could make the show we wanted to make. The.
